Review: Eggs Roma, Trastevere, Rome Eggs Trastevere focusing on one essential ingredient – the humble egg – with unbelievable panache. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, while the name is a giveaway, put aside all your preconceptions before you try this place. Yes, expect a hearty American or English-style breakfast in relaxed, informal surroundings, with fried,…
Romantic Rome holidays: all you need to know Romance and Rome can’t help but go hand in hand. If you’re planning a trip to Rome and you’re looking for somewhere romantic to take a stroll on Valentine’s Day, pop the question or simply say I love you, the city has a natural gift for putting…
The Gin Corner, Hotel Adriano, Rome When you live abroad, it’s common to have pet oddities that you miss. One of mine is a bit weird. Can you miss gin? It’s hard to argue that it’s absent in Italy. After all, it’s not like you can’t find gin in Rome – far from it. There’s…
Things to do when you visit Rome: some fun ideas via Instagram Instagram is one of my favourite social media platforms as a travel blogger. I really enjoy sharing the highlights of my trips and engaging with other amazing Instagrammers from all over the world. Most of the pictures on my feed however aren’t captured…
Piazza Vittorio: Rome’s most misunderstood neighbourhood Piazza Vittorio: probably Rome’s most misunderstood district. Frustrating, vital, dirty, inspiring, intimidating, unique. At first glance, this turn-of-the-century square appears to provide a pretty green park just a few minutes from Termini, with a perimeter of elegant porticoes that recall stately Turin at the foot of its tall apartment…
Be.Re, a craft beer bar near the Vatican, has won over locals and tourists alike by serving excellent craft ales alongside some of the best street food in the city. Be.Re. has two meanings – the Italian verb to drink (bere), as well as combining the words Beer and Restaurant, addressing its likely international clientele….
Everyone knows that Italy has produced some of the best baristas in the world, but what do you do when you have just a few days in Rome and want to be fast-tracked into the city’s cocktail culture? Enter The Roman Guy, two dudes who set up a tour company in Rome to help travellers…
Have you ever wanted to travel in time? Good, so have I! While visiting a city like Rome can take you closer to the past, I’ve always wondered what it would really have been like to see the city at the height of the Roman Empire. Well, now you can. Or at least, some of…
While Keats & the Cats would be a great name for a jazz fusion collective, the only music I’m humming as I write this article is a rather onerous funeral march. Death awaits us all, and darkness is descending. If you were looking for a cheerful read, click away now! If, on the other hand,…
Rome is full of glimpses of history, but for anyone who loves the more recent past, visiting Garbatella is a must. Whilst its architecture represents an almost perfectly preserved slice of the 1920s, a stroll through this magical neighbourhood also conveys what life in modern Rome can be like – a contrast of the quaint…
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